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👑❤️⚡Even Gods Bow to Her- drama
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00:00:01Get those banners hoisted! Straighten the garlands!
00:00:04Bring the wine to the guests, now!
00:00:09Today's a blessed day, the old gods are smiling on us!
00:00:20Whose wretched carriage is this?
00:00:22Have you any idea what day it is?
00:00:24You're blocking Lady Isabella's path on her wedding day!
00:00:27Bring me Alistair.
00:00:29You dare speak his name? You're not fit to breathe the same air!
00:00:34I am Morgana. I have come to collect what is mine.
00:00:43I'll fetch him right away!
00:00:49Sixty years. You've had my eyes. Now I want them back.
00:00:53A grand day. My daughter marries a prince.
00:00:57My lord! My lord!
00:01:00Control yourself.
00:01:02A woman at the gates. She says her name is Morgana. She demands to see you. Now.
00:01:11Morgana.
00:01:14Forgive me. I didn't know you were coming.
00:01:17House Alistram is yours. Show us mercy.
00:01:20My lord, you are a duke. You kneel to no one but the king.
00:01:24One more word, and I'll cut it out myself.
00:01:28My lady. Please.
00:01:31My lady. Please.
00:01:47Mind the steps, my lady.
00:01:53The sky turns.
00:02:04Sixty years ago, I broke myself into twelve embers.
00:02:11The throne was secured. It is time.
00:02:20To reclaim them all.
00:02:25My lady, please. Rest inside. I will bring it to you myself.
00:02:29It is exactly where you left it, my lady.
00:02:32Untouched.
00:02:34You give it up so easily.
00:02:36It was never mine to keep.
00:02:37You know what it built. Your entire dynasty.
00:02:41Hundreds years of power.
00:02:43Titles.
00:02:44The crown's favour.
00:02:45The gift of seeing into men's hearts.
00:02:48Without it, you are nothing but a blind man stumbling in the dark.
00:02:52The blood covenant my grandfather sworn binds every generation after him.
00:02:56House Alistair owes you everything it has. And everything it is.
00:03:01You have my word. I will honour the pact. Willingly.
00:03:06The old man bred well. An obedient heir.
00:03:16Since when does my father kneel for peasants?
00:03:20The iris ember, my lady.
00:03:24A covenant is a trade. I take back what is mine.
00:03:27And I leave you one truth.
00:03:30The old laws demand it. Ask your question.
00:03:35My lady.
00:03:37In a few days, Isabella weds the crown prince.
00:03:40I need to...
00:03:42I need to know what waits for her.
00:03:44You want to know if she lives.
00:03:46Without my ember watching over her.
00:03:49What her crown will cost.
00:03:51Yes. Please.
00:03:52Tell me her fate.
00:03:54Bring the girl to me.
00:03:57Mother.
00:03:58The night before my royal wedding,
00:04:00some blind woman in funeral rags walks into our home.
00:04:04And father knelt for her.
00:04:06Tell me the truth.
00:04:08Is she one of his lowborn mistresses?
00:04:11Crawling here to beg for coin?
00:04:13If we allow that woman to stand in our halls,
00:04:17without putting her on her knees,
00:04:18she will believe she belongs here.
00:04:22And we cannot have that.
00:04:24Then let's remind her how this house treats beggars.
00:04:32I assumed we were hosting royalty for my husband to grovel so.
00:04:39To greet you himself, I simply had to see who...
00:04:42a long way out of my house is.
00:04:43To eat you.
00:04:44Are you ready?
00:04:47Now, I'm going to leave behind you.
00:04:51Magana, was it?
00:04:54You are a guest in my halls.
00:04:56Drink.
00:05:01Your wine, my lady.
00:05:02A blind witch. This shall prove to you.
00:05:16I told them to boil it!
00:05:19Doorish vintage. Pity it turned to vinegar, masked with heavy spice.
00:05:26Poured from the rot at the bottom of your cellar. Is this how House Alistair hides its decay?
00:05:33How could she possibly smell that? She knows. How could she know?
00:05:37You insolent wretch! Keep your filthy mouth!
00:05:45By his wits alone did Lord Alistair survive.
00:05:48Isabella, your gown!
00:05:50A tragedy. His bloodline rots with you.
00:05:54How dare you! My husband may tolerate your delusions, but I will not!
00:05:59You just assaulted the future Crown Christess by Royal Decree.
00:06:03You will kneel and you will bleed for it!
00:06:05She is a fool. You are worse.
00:06:09Even the gods of the underworld have yet to see me kneel.
00:06:14Why would you?
00:06:16We shall see.
00:06:19Guards, take her!
00:06:24And break her legs.
00:06:26Do it!
00:06:32Seize her!
00:06:33Now!
00:06:33Now!
00:06:48Stop!
00:06:50Stop this at once!
00:06:52Fools!
00:06:56Morgana!
00:06:57They know nothing!
00:06:59They acted out of turn!
00:07:01Spare them!
00:07:02I beg of you!
00:07:04Alistair!
00:07:05Father!
00:07:06Both of you!
00:07:07You blind arrogant fools!
00:07:09She chose restraint!
00:07:11Or you would already be ashes upon this floor!
00:07:14On your knees!
00:07:16Beg for your lives!
00:07:19I bow to no one!
00:07:20I am the future Crown Princess!
00:07:23I will wear the crown!
00:07:25I will rule this realm!
00:07:29I am a queen!
00:07:31She is just a-
00:07:36A pity.
00:07:39No crown rests on a dead woman.
00:07:44You will die before the wedding bells ring.
00:08:01A pity.
00:08:02No
00:08:04You get out of my house silence your tongue
00:08:09Morgana, please. How do we stop this?
00:08:13Call off the royal wedding
00:08:16break betrothed
00:08:19Or she dies
00:08:30The royal escort led by the obsidian guard
00:08:33Commander Cedric himself, the reaper of the realm
00:08:43The prophecy is written
00:08:48And the king's edict
00:09:00Commander Cedric, you heard the prophecy
00:09:02If Isabella rides to the palace today, it will be her funeral
00:09:07The crown commands this union, Lord Alistair
00:09:10My escort is already at your gates
00:09:14You dare defy the throne over cheap parlor tricks?
00:09:17And break the royal contract?
00:09:20Unless
00:09:22You doubt my ability to keep her breathing
00:09:26No, commander
00:09:27Your blade is legendary
00:09:29Your tactics flawless
00:09:31The king trusts no other
00:09:32She is safe with you
00:09:36But Morgana has seen it
00:09:37She is our only hope
00:09:39Alistair
00:09:41The king's patience is not infinite
00:09:43Do not humiliate us for a blind witch
00:09:45Do not humiliate us for a blind witch
00:09:46The crown's wrath will burn this castle to the ground
00:09:49I will not let you ruin us
00:09:51I will not let you ruin us
00:09:52She is right, father
00:09:53I am perfectly safe with the commander
00:09:56Have the carriage ready
00:09:57I will fetch my veil
00:10:03Isabella
00:10:27Isabella
00:10:28My daughter
00:10:30Our ultimate masterpiece
00:10:35Lock it down
00:10:36Lock it down, double guards
00:10:37Kill anything that moves
00:10:38Nothing touch that carriage
00:10:40Are we clear?
00:10:41Crystal clear
00:10:42Captain, consider it done
00:10:44You're wasting men
00:10:47The prophecy is spoken
00:10:49The bride won't survive this journey
00:10:51I am never wrong
00:10:53Enlighten me then, Oracle
00:10:55Give me a name
00:10:56How exactly does she die?
00:10:59Give me real intel
00:11:01Do that, I might believe you
00:11:02Seeing the end requires a price
00:11:04A transaction
00:11:07I see the blood
00:11:08The question is
00:11:09Can you afford it?
00:11:12There it is
00:11:13The classic shakedown
00:11:15We always get here
00:11:16Just a beggar
00:11:17I could watch the Duke's daughter in her wedding dress
00:11:19Perfectly protected by your elite guards
00:11:22Ride straight to her execution
00:11:25Let me ride with your convoy
00:11:27Take me
00:11:29I'll prove you wrong
00:11:34Play the prophet
00:11:36Watch her cross those gates alive
00:11:41I'll feel the blood
00:11:45Bring the oracle a horse
00:12:34Take them to the Iron Court
00:12:36I want a name.
00:12:37Yes, Commander!
00:12:45Thank the gods Cedric was here.
00:12:48We're safe. He earned his coin.
00:12:54You fight well, mortal.
00:12:56Pity it changes nothing. I do not guess.
00:13:01The grave is dug.
00:13:03The hour is here. Step forward, future empress.
00:13:14Isabella, my love finally.
00:13:21No! God!
00:13:31The prophecy. She knew.
00:13:34How? She was right there.
00:13:37The prophecy is fulfilled. Her blood is spilled.
00:13:41You killed my daughter!
00:13:43Your daughter's death was a tragedy.
00:13:45Eleanor, don't provoke her.
00:13:47Look at the carriage! The doors were sealed!
00:13:50Who else could bypass those locks?
00:13:52Enough! Seal the gates!
00:13:54Nobody leaves this yort yard!
00:13:56You're all suspects. Take them to the iron court!
00:14:04We're alone. Just tell me the damn truth.
00:14:08How did you reach inside a moving, heavily guarded carriage and take her head without a single sound?
00:14:13You mapped out her execution beforehand. Fine.
00:14:19Say you didn't swing the blade yourself.
00:14:23But you orchestrated this.
00:14:27If that comforts you, you may use it.
00:14:33I see the threads.
00:14:35Every drop of blood before it falls.
00:14:38The end is written.
00:14:40You're just walking the path blind.
00:14:43Cut the riddles. You're in my cell now.
00:14:48If you see everything, then what happens next?
00:14:52Does the blade slip? Does the steel bite?
00:14:55Or maybe I'm just sick of your games and slit your throat right now!
00:14:58Did you see that?!
00:15:03A seer is blind to her own end. That is the only law I obey.
00:15:09Then tell me how this ends.
00:15:12But you cannot kill me, Cedric.
00:15:17Let's put that to the test.
00:15:19Steel cannot touch me.
00:15:25By drawing it on me, you owe a deadly debt.
00:15:28Madness. I serve the crown. I don't fear witches.
00:15:34Still believe in hard facts, Commander?
00:15:38Commander!
00:15:39We have a situation.
00:15:40The prisoners from the ambush, sir.
00:15:42They took poison.
00:15:44Hidden in their teeth.
00:15:45They're all dead.
00:15:47Trails cold.
00:15:48Dead?!
00:15:48You let our only witnesses die in chains?!
00:15:51They were paid to die.
00:15:52They'd never talk.
00:15:54You want the true killer?
00:15:56Stop asking the living.
00:15:58They only lie.
00:15:59I'll make the dead speak.
00:16:07You said you could make the dead speak.
00:16:10Name your price.
00:16:11There's always a price with you.
00:16:13Always.
00:16:14Name it.
00:16:15Whatever closes this investigation.
00:16:18I want your absolute obedience.
00:16:21When I speak, you do not question.
00:16:25When I point, you do not hesitate.
00:16:27My loyalty is to the crown.
00:16:29I don't give blind trust.
00:16:31I have the killer.
00:16:33If you put the murderer in front of me, then you have my trust.
00:16:38Don't make a vow you can't keep, Commander.
00:16:41You have my word.
00:16:42I won't break it.
00:16:48Take this.
00:16:49Sew her head back on.
00:16:51You want me to mutilate a royal corpse?
00:16:53Every second you wait, she fades.
00:16:59Her soul is bleeding out.
00:17:03It's done.
00:17:05What now?
00:17:06Open the doors.
00:17:09Bring them all.
00:17:10The grieving father.
00:17:12The weeping mother.
00:17:14Bring the prince who lost his bride.
00:17:17We are going to hold a court of our own.
00:17:25Isabella!
00:17:26My baby!
00:17:27Oh God!
00:17:29Hold her back.
00:17:29Don't let her touch the body.
00:17:31Let me go!
00:17:31That's my daughter!
00:17:33Why is she here?
00:17:34Why is that blind woman in the judge's seat?
00:17:38Commander Ashworth!
00:17:39She killed her!
00:17:40She cursed my daughter and you let her sit there!
00:17:43His Royal Highness Prince Kale!
00:17:47Isabella!
00:17:48Let me through!
00:17:49Isabella!
00:17:50No!
00:17:51Look what they did to you.
00:17:52My beautiful girl.
00:17:54The audience is here.
00:17:56Let the performance end.
00:17:59Flesh to thread.
00:18:02Bone to command.
00:18:05Rise.
00:18:11You demanded proof, Commander.
00:18:14Behold the truth.
00:18:16You wove the crimson soul thread yourself.
00:18:20The bond is forged.
00:18:22Ask her.
00:18:25Isabella Alastom.
00:18:27Is your killer here?
00:18:30Ah, ah, ah.
00:18:39Nooo.
00:18:46Noooo!
00:18:53Keep that thing away! She's bewitched!
00:19:01The crown is ours, father.
00:19:30Edmund Alaston, do you confess?
00:19:34I confess to nothing!
00:19:36You sick witch! You killed her! You puppeted her corpse to frame us!
00:19:42He took you in! You repay us with blood!
00:19:46This is madness! A father doesn't slaughter his own blood! Isabella was my pride!
00:19:54Why would I destroy my own future? See the truth!
00:19:58His own blood, that's true. But what if that girl was never your blood at all?
00:20:07Eleanor, why did the Emperor betroth Isabella to Prince Kael?
00:20:11It was destiny.
00:20:12The Emperor declared it. They were born the exact same hour. Blessed by the gods.
00:20:22Wait! It's impossible! Edmund, tell me you didn't!
00:20:27I had to secure our bloodline.
00:20:34Give me the child I must see. Tell the truth! Is it a boy?
00:20:39A girl, my lady. A girl? No! You're lying!
00:20:44A daughter. Just as I said.
00:20:47Why me?
00:20:51The consort is waiting. If it's a boy, I'm ruined!
00:20:55Breathe, my lady. Panic is a luxury we can't afford. Duke Alistair has already arranged a solution.
00:21:02Bring the bundle inside. Now.
00:21:07Look closely. Pure Alistair blood. A flawless son. Yours, if you dare.
00:21:16A son!
00:21:17From now on you are mine. The true heir of this house. My son. My heir.
00:21:45You're telling this court I'm Duke Alistair's son?
00:21:49No. No. No. No, no.
00:21:52I am the crown prince!
00:21:57It can't be.
00:21:58How could my husband do such a thing? This is treason!
00:22:03What could he possibly want to risk all our lives?
00:22:06What did he want? Your son, sitting on the throne. That's what he wanted.
00:22:14You need proof to make such claims. This dark sorcery proves absolutely nothing.
00:22:19Lord Alistair, if I had to guess, the moment the emperor degreed Isabella's marriage,
00:22:25you realized if she entered the royal court, the crown would eventually discover her secret.
00:22:29So you hired a pack of mercenaries to stage a bandit raid on the carriage.
00:22:33But Morgana's warning put my guard on alert.
00:22:35You feared with extra men your hired killers wouldn't be able to finish the job,
00:22:39so you killed your own daughter before she left.
00:22:41And as for your loyal servants, they break much faster than paid assassins.
00:22:45Commander! Commander Ashworth!
00:22:47Lord Alistair's personal guard, they've confessed to everything!
00:22:49The signed confessions.
00:22:51They admit the Duke ordered them to silence Isabella before she even left.
00:22:59My entire life of scheming, all crushed by fate's cruel hand.
00:23:07The eye you granted us gave House Alistair absolute power.
00:23:12Unmatched wealth, unmatched glory, but the emperor still stood above me.
00:23:17Until that day, when I saw, I saw.
00:23:28I saw the truth.
00:23:30If my son took the cradle, he'd rule the world.
00:23:35But the vision didn't end there.
00:23:38I saw the flaw that would kill us.
00:23:40The decree.
00:23:41The royal wedding.
00:23:43If Isabella entered that palace, he would see my daughter.
00:23:49He'd see the exact face of the young empress.
00:23:52He's not blind.
00:23:55He'd know exactly what I did.
00:23:58I had no choice!
00:23:59You must see that!
00:24:01I had to cut the rot out.
00:24:03I had to protect my family!
00:24:06My son will be emperor!
00:24:08I had to!
00:24:13Morgana, I confess it all.
00:24:15Punish me alone.
00:24:17I beg you, look at me!
00:24:18Remember my father's loyalty!
00:24:21Spare my wife!
00:24:23He's lying!
00:24:24We knew nothing!
00:24:25Please!
00:24:26I'm begging you, take my life, but let them live!
00:24:30Granted.
00:24:31Thank you, Oracle.
00:24:34My life for theirs.
00:24:37Edmund!
00:24:38No!
00:24:39Edmund!
00:24:40No!
00:24:41Edmund!
00:24:43Edmund!
00:24:44Please stay!
00:24:47Wake up, please.
00:24:49Don't leave me!
00:24:53A lot of wars.
00:25:23I gave them my sight, to watch the dark.
00:25:27Instead, they watched the throne.
00:25:30Built a lie, thought they could cheat fate.
00:25:33Thought they owned me.
00:25:35They own nothing.
00:25:37I'm taking it all back.
00:25:39With blood.
00:25:42Mortal hands cannot hold the weight of a god.
00:25:45It crushes them.
00:25:47The Alistair debt is settled.
00:25:50My sight is mine again.
00:25:53Now, we move to the next house.
00:25:57Stop!
00:25:57You can't just march in there.
00:25:59This is treason.
00:26:01I must alert the Emperor.
00:26:02No need to call the Emperor.
00:26:04He's already here.
00:26:11Gods.
00:26:12The Emperor.
00:26:17Your Majesty.
00:26:21By royal decree, Prince Kale and the Empress are hereby spankstripped of titles.
00:26:27They shall be cast into the Black Cells.
00:26:30It shall be done.
00:26:37Lady Morgana!
00:26:39Lady Morgana!
00:26:40It's you!
00:26:41Careful, sire!
00:26:43Morgana!
00:26:44Sire, wait!
00:26:45Lady Morgana!
00:26:47Oh, my Lady Morgana!
00:26:49Forgive me!
00:26:51It's my fault.
00:26:52I was blind to let them trouble you.
00:26:55I wish to name you High Protector.
00:26:58To guide the realm.
00:26:59Every mage alive will answer only to your command.
00:27:04My rule is simple.
00:27:06One shard for one question.
00:27:09You want a prophecy?
00:27:10Give me your family's ancient inheritance.
00:27:14The crown shard in exchange.
00:27:17Ah, right.
00:27:18If you wish to reclaim the shard,
00:27:21I will gladly return it.
00:27:23After all, my family owes our throne to you.
00:27:27Power is a debt.
00:27:28When I give and when I take,
00:27:30is my choice alone.
00:27:32Why the rush?
00:27:34Yes, you are completely right.
00:27:37Please, rest at Ashermyth Palace.
00:27:39Everything will grant her than...
00:27:41No, no!
00:27:42Higher than Imperial standards!
00:27:43No need.
00:27:45I am going to Ashworth Keep.
00:27:47Besides,
00:27:49my heart
00:27:51currently belongs to him.
00:27:59Yes, yes, of course.
00:28:01Take my royal carriage.
00:28:05Please, my lady.
00:28:06After you.
00:28:07Your Grace,
00:28:08that is the Sovereign's carriage.
00:28:09It breaks royal protocol.
00:28:11Shut your mouth!
00:28:13Lady Morgana is the law.
00:28:15Her word is absolute.
00:28:16There is no protocol in this world
00:28:17that outrants her.
00:28:19Isn't that right, my dear lady?
00:28:21Please.
00:28:23Mind the step, my lady.
00:28:25Careful now.
00:28:25Very careful.
00:28:27Commander Ashworth.
00:28:28Your Grace.
00:28:29If she suffers even a scratch,
00:28:31I swear to God,
00:28:32I will hang every last member
00:28:33of your retted house.
00:28:35Do I make myself clear?
00:28:37Crystal clear, Your Grace.
00:28:38My dear lady Morgana,
00:28:40I have just remembered
00:28:41some urgent matters of state
00:28:43to attend to.
00:28:44I must take my leave.
00:28:50You serve lady Morgana now.
00:28:52Farewell.
00:28:53Have a pleasant journey.
00:28:57Earlier you said
00:28:58that I had your heart.
00:29:00What the hell does that mean?
00:29:02Sixty years ago,
00:29:04my heart was carved
00:29:05from my chest.
00:29:07It is not with you.
00:29:10It is in your house.
00:29:12My house?
00:29:17This way, Lady Morgana.
00:29:18Thanks to Your Grace,
00:29:20sixty years ago,
00:29:21when you bestowed
00:29:21the Heartmen Shard upon us,
00:29:23the Ashworth name
00:29:24is now renowned
00:29:24for our healing arts.
00:29:26You see?
00:29:27These afflicted souls
00:29:28travel from the furthest
00:29:29corners of the kingdom
00:29:30seeking our aid.
00:29:32So,
00:29:33the legendary Ashworth
00:29:34healing arts
00:29:36actually came from you.
00:29:39Tell me then,
00:29:40just how old are you exactly?
00:29:43Does it matter to you?
00:29:44Please, my lord,
00:29:46save my mother!
00:29:47Wake up, Mama!
00:29:48Somebody help her!
00:29:49Have mercy!
00:29:50Please help my mother!
00:29:51I beg of you!
00:29:53This is all the coin I have.
00:29:54Please,
00:29:56show some mercy.
00:29:58A handful of dirty coppers?
00:30:00And you expect
00:30:01the Master's healing for that?
00:30:03Get out of here now!
00:30:04Stop wasting everyone's time.
00:30:06Selina!
00:30:09Cedric!
00:30:10You're finally home!
00:30:12When I gave your family
00:30:13the Shard,
00:30:14it was to heal the broken.
00:30:16To serve the realm,
00:30:17not to exploit the weak.
00:30:19You have broken the pact.
00:30:20Give the Fragment back.
00:30:22Who do you think you are?
00:30:23How dare a commoner like you
00:30:25make demands in Ashwild Keeps!
00:30:27Silence!
00:30:28Show her respect!
00:30:30This is Selina Frost.
00:30:32A ward
00:30:33taken in by my father.
00:30:36Selina.
00:30:37We heal the sick,
00:30:38regardless of coin.
00:30:39Have you forgotten?
00:30:40Go to the chapel.
00:30:42Pray.
00:30:43Beg her forgiveness.
00:30:44You heard him!
00:30:44To the chapel now!
00:30:48I beg your pardon,
00:30:49my lady.
00:30:50I had no idea
00:30:51she was extorting them.
00:30:54Rest assured,
00:30:55the Ashwilds
00:30:56honor your gift.
00:30:56We'd never turn away
00:30:58the poor.
00:30:59Most days,
00:30:59we treat all these commoners
00:31:01without asking for any money.
00:31:03I said,
00:31:04return the Shard.
00:31:07Or do you mean
00:31:08to defy me?
00:31:10No, no!
00:31:10The relic
00:31:11is rightfully yours!
00:31:13I will return it
00:31:14to you immediately.
00:31:15It is just,
00:31:16the Hartman Shard
00:31:18is kept safe
00:31:18by my eldest,
00:31:19Marin.
00:31:20She's been in seclusion
00:31:21at a distant abbey
00:31:22for years.
00:31:23Once she returns
00:31:23from her retreat,
00:31:24I will present it
00:31:25to you myself.
00:31:26Fine.
00:31:27I will wait.
00:31:32Every time I return,
00:31:35she still won't see me.
00:31:38Fifteen years.
00:31:39Fifteen years
00:31:39since I've laid eyes on her.
00:31:41Does she really despise me
00:31:42that much?
00:31:43Why do you think
00:31:44she treats you
00:31:44with such coldness?
00:31:47Because of what I did.
00:31:49She hates me.
00:31:51When I was a boy,
00:31:53I almost died.
00:31:54My sister came for me.
00:31:56And the iron drove
00:31:57through her right arm
00:31:58in my place.
00:31:59She was never
00:32:00the same again.
00:32:04She was a master healer.
00:32:06Those gifted hands.
00:32:08She could bring
00:32:08the dying back to life.
00:32:10But because of me,
00:32:11the scar on her arm
00:32:11never faded.
00:32:13And she was taken
00:32:14from me forever.
00:32:15She became a completely
00:32:16different person
00:32:17after that.
00:32:18The Hartman Shard
00:32:19was hers by birthright.
00:32:21With its power,
00:32:22she became the greatest
00:32:23healer in the kingdom.
00:32:24And then they sent
00:32:25her far away
00:32:26to a quiet abbey
00:32:27where she could
00:32:27practice in peace.
00:32:29But I know the truth.
00:32:31That day
00:32:32became a thorn
00:32:33in her heart.
00:32:34One that will never
00:32:35be pulled out.
00:32:36Every time she looks at me,
00:32:38she remembers
00:32:39what saving me cost her.
00:32:40Everything is bound
00:32:41by consequence, Commander.
00:32:43You see only the branches
00:32:45above the soil,
00:32:46but you are blind
00:32:47to the roots below.
00:32:48What is that supposed
00:32:49to mean?
00:32:50You will know
00:32:51soon enough.
00:32:56My knees are hurting.
00:32:58I'll fetch the salve.
00:33:00Cedric just got back
00:33:02and he's already
00:33:02screaming at me
00:33:03because of her!
00:33:05She's an honoured guest.
00:33:06Even Lord Ashworth
00:33:07had to apologise to her.
00:33:09Master Cedric
00:33:09serves her.
00:33:11People are whispering.
00:33:13She might be
00:33:13his future bride.
00:33:15His future bride?
00:33:16Look at her.
00:33:17She's a freak.
00:33:19With that filthy
00:33:20black rags.
00:33:21She doesn't deserve
00:33:22Cedric.
00:33:27Crone.
00:33:28What is that?
00:33:29Honey cakes.
00:33:31Master Cedric's favourite.
00:33:33And imperial spiced wine
00:33:35for Lady Morgana.
00:33:37Halt!
00:33:39Imperial spiced wine?
00:33:40A gift from
00:33:41the Emperor himself.
00:33:42It's worth a fortune.
00:33:44You really know
00:33:45how to grovel.
00:33:47Give it here.
00:33:50Healers always
00:33:51keep the best poisons.
00:33:53This widow's kiss
00:33:54is lethal.
00:33:56No taste,
00:33:57no cure.
00:33:59Drink up, Morgana.
00:34:00Go.
00:34:01Take it to her.
00:34:03I cannot, my lady.
00:34:04She is Master
00:34:05Cedric's guest.
00:34:08Know your place.
00:34:10Without Ashfield Charity,
00:34:13a useless old crone
00:34:14would be rotting
00:34:15in the gutter.
00:34:17Pathetic.
00:34:22I am disciplining
00:34:23a servant.
00:34:24Since when does
00:34:25a blind freak
00:34:26interfere with Ashfield
00:34:27affairs?
00:34:28If your tongue
00:34:29serves only to offend,
00:34:31then you should not
00:34:31speak at all.
00:34:35Morgana,
00:34:37you little piece of-
00:34:39My lady,
00:34:40what is it?
00:34:40My lady,
00:34:41what's wrong?
00:34:41Please,
00:34:41say something!
00:34:42What's doing this?
00:34:44Guards,
00:34:44help us!
00:34:45Get Lord Aldrich,
00:34:46she's choking!
00:34:47She can't breathe!
00:34:48Lord Aldrich,
00:34:49please,
00:34:50hurry!
00:34:50I'm right here.
00:34:52Just breathe.
00:34:52She suddenly lost her voice.
00:34:55Selene is just a foolish girl.
00:34:57She didn't mean
00:34:58to offend you.
00:34:59I will make her
00:34:59apologize to you
00:35:00at once.
00:35:01What are you waiting for?
00:35:02Apologize!
00:35:03Now!
00:35:03Are you deaf?
00:35:04Do you want to be
00:35:05mute forever?
00:35:10My lady.
00:35:13I don't want your apology.
00:35:15Kneel to the one
00:35:16you truly wronged.
00:35:18Please, no!
00:35:19I'm nobody!
00:35:20A lady cannot kneel to me!
00:35:22I'm just a servant!
00:35:23Silence!
00:35:24Just be grateful!
00:35:25Every brick in this house
00:35:27rests on the Hartman Shard.
00:35:29She built our legacy.
00:35:32Oracle,
00:35:33I beg you,
00:35:34she's terrified.
00:35:36Let it be enough,
00:35:37please.
00:35:38Have mercy.
00:35:45Your mercy is boundless,
00:35:46my lady.
00:35:47I will discipline
00:35:48the girl at once.
00:35:50Come, my lady.
00:35:51Let us go.
00:35:56Are you hurt?
00:35:58I am fine,
00:35:59my lord.
00:36:00You've grown so thin.
00:36:02The northern winds
00:36:03have been cruel to you.
00:36:05You must stay longer
00:36:06this time.
00:36:07Your name day is soon.
00:36:09I knitted you
00:36:09a pair of thick
00:36:10winter gloves.
00:36:11Let me fetch them for you.
00:36:13Wait right here for me.
00:36:16That old woman,
00:36:18her devotion to you
00:36:19is genuine.
00:36:21It is.
00:36:22She has been here
00:36:23since I was a boy.
00:36:25Always kind to me.
00:36:26When I was injured
00:36:27as a boy,
00:36:27she sneaked me pouches.
00:36:29And every year
00:36:30on my name day,
00:36:31when my own sister
00:36:32was lost to me,
00:36:33she brought me
00:36:34warm broth
00:36:35and fresh bread.
00:36:37With her,
00:36:38I almost remember
00:36:39what having a sister
00:36:40felt like.
00:36:41If that is true,
00:36:42you should show her
00:36:43more grace
00:36:43while you can.
00:36:44I have seen
00:36:45the shadow on her.
00:36:47She has but a few
00:36:48days left.
00:36:49Do not wait
00:36:50until tomorrow
00:36:51to realize
00:36:52what you have lost.
00:36:57Listen to me,
00:36:58child.
00:36:59Never cross paths
00:37:00with Morgana again.
00:37:02She thinks she owns us.
00:37:03Patience,
00:37:04my sweet girl.
00:37:05I'm securing
00:37:06your future.
00:37:08Play the game.
00:37:09Let her think
00:37:10she's win.
00:37:11Soon,
00:37:12everything will be yours.
00:37:14Lady Morgana,
00:37:15Lady Ashfield
00:37:16has sent me
00:37:17to return the
00:37:18Hartman's Shard
00:37:19to its rightful owner.
00:37:21We have heard
00:37:21when you take back
00:37:23what is yours,
00:37:24you offer a reading
00:37:26in return.
00:37:27Lady Ashworth
00:37:28has written her question
00:37:29right here
00:37:30on this parchment.
00:37:31Take it, Cedric.
00:37:37I will not answer
00:37:39this question
00:37:39because the
00:37:41Hartman's Shard
00:37:42is a fake.
00:37:43What?
00:37:45A fake!
00:37:47Someone must have
00:37:48switched it
00:37:48when she wasn't looking.
00:37:49I'll get to the bottom
00:37:50of this.
00:37:51Tonight.
00:37:52Don't.
00:37:53What is mine
00:37:55will always
00:37:56return to my hands.
00:37:58Lady Morgana!
00:37:59Commander Ashford!
00:38:03The Emperor
00:38:04begs your aid!
00:38:05The Empress
00:38:06door wager is dying.
00:38:07The Royal Physicians
00:38:08can do nothing for her.
00:38:09His Majesty
00:38:10demands you
00:38:10come at once!
00:38:11Please, my lady,
00:38:12you are her only hope.
00:38:17lead the way.
00:38:20Useless fools!
00:38:21What good are you
00:38:22if she dies?
00:38:24Your Majesty,
00:38:25Lady Morgana
00:38:26has arrived.
00:38:30Morgana,
00:38:31thank the gods
00:38:32you have come.
00:38:33Please,
00:38:33you must help her.
00:38:34Mother is...
00:38:35Her flame
00:38:36has burned out.
00:38:37Her time is over.
00:38:39Prepare the crypt.
00:38:40Lies!
00:38:41That is a lie!
00:38:41Your Majesty.
00:38:45I can save the Empress.
00:38:49Morgana,
00:38:50if you can't save her,
00:38:52stop making pathetic excuses.
00:38:54I say,
00:38:55you have no real power.
00:38:57You're nothing
00:38:57but a fraudulent witch.
00:38:59Selina!
00:39:00This is a royal chamber,
00:39:02not your playground!
00:39:03Your Grace,
00:39:03I can heal her.
00:39:04On my life,
00:39:06Selina Frost.
00:39:07You should know.
00:39:08Cedric knows it well.
00:39:10My prophecies
00:39:11are never wrong.
00:39:13Care to make a wager,
00:39:14then?
00:39:14On what?
00:39:15If I win,
00:39:17I want the Emperor
00:39:18to decree my marriage
00:39:19to Cedric.
00:39:20And I want your head
00:39:22severed from your neck.
00:39:24Your Grace.
00:39:24Madness!
00:39:25This is absolute madness!
00:39:27Gods!
00:39:28Drag this madwoman away!
00:39:30I accept.
00:39:36Very well.
00:39:37Give it a try.
00:39:39If you truly cure my mother,
00:39:41I will grant your every wish.
00:39:50So you stole the Hartman's schnard?
00:39:53Cedric.
00:39:54I'll be a master healer,
00:39:56just like your sister.
00:39:57Then you'll finally see
00:39:59I'm the only one for you.
00:40:02Forcing fate
00:40:03only brings ruin.
00:40:05If you insist on this path,
00:40:07you alone will choke on the ashes.
00:40:12Save your cheap parlor tricks.
00:40:14Healing the sick is God's work.
00:40:15There's no price for that.
00:40:18By the old blood,
00:40:20I command the vessel.
00:40:21Take the living spark.
00:40:23Feed the dying flame.
00:40:27Awaken.
00:40:32Wake up!
00:40:36Wake!
00:40:40Wake!
00:40:41Wake up!
00:40:51Wake up!
00:41:05Mother!
00:41:07Wake up!
00:41:08Wake up!
00:41:08Wake up!
00:41:09Wake up!
00:41:10Wake up!
00:41:11Wake up!
00:41:12My face!
00:41:13No!
00:41:15How did this happen?
00:41:18You stole my magic,
00:41:20but you never asked,
00:41:22when the spell steals a living spark,
00:41:24whose spark
00:41:25does it take?
00:41:29Whose life did you think
00:41:30you were spending?
00:41:31The Ashworth Empire
00:41:32isn't built on medicine.
00:41:34It's built on a parasite.
00:41:36It trades your years
00:41:38for theirs.
00:41:39A simple fever
00:41:41costs you a month.
00:41:42A fatal wound
00:41:45strips the youth
00:41:46right off your bones.
00:41:48Sick Empress was already dead.
00:41:50Her time was up.
00:41:52Give her every hour
00:41:53you have left.
00:41:54It won't buy her
00:41:55a single day.
00:41:57Then what about
00:41:58Maren?
00:41:59Explain, Maren!
00:42:00She bore the shard
00:42:01for 30 years,
00:42:03pulled thousands
00:42:04from the grave.
00:42:05Then she should be dust!
00:42:07She should be
00:42:07a rotting corpse!
00:42:09Why is she flawless?
00:42:11Why not her?
00:42:12Look at me!
00:42:13It took everything!
00:42:14My skin!
00:42:16My life!
00:42:17Why just me?
00:42:19You said she was perfect.
00:42:21Cedric,
00:42:22you believe she hid
00:42:24from you for 10 years.
00:42:25It never crossed your mind
00:42:27that the woman she became
00:42:28was standing right in front of you
00:42:31and you looked right through her.
00:42:34Stop.
00:42:35What does that mean?
00:42:37You're a commander.
00:42:39Open your eyes.
00:42:40Every year on your birthday,
00:42:42that old servant,
00:42:43the only one who still cooks for you,
00:42:45who is she, Cedric?
00:42:50Lord Cedric, wait!
00:42:52You can't go in!
00:42:53My lord!
00:42:54She said no visitors!
00:42:55My lord!
00:43:02Maren.
00:43:03Gods.
00:43:04It's really you.
00:43:09Move along.
00:43:10Get out.
00:43:11Move,
00:43:12before I drag you out.
00:43:15Know who stands before you.
00:43:17My lord,
00:43:18I did not know.
00:43:19Maren.
00:43:20My lord,
00:43:21you're mistaken.
00:43:22She's not Maren.
00:43:23She's just an old crone.
00:43:25Nothing more.
00:43:26My lord!
00:43:27Get out.
00:43:28Yes, my lord!
00:43:33My lord,
00:43:34I'm nobody.
00:43:36Just an old crone.
00:43:37Nobody of importance.
00:43:39Just a servant.
00:43:40This is the inner sanctum.
00:43:42Only the bloodline,
00:43:43only the Hartmann Shard-bearer
00:43:45can come here.
00:43:48Let me see you.
00:43:57That scar.
00:44:00Where did this scar come from?
00:44:03Only Maren bore this mark.
00:44:06Maren?
00:44:09Why didn't you tell me?
00:44:14Why?
00:44:15All these years,
00:44:16why didn't you tell me?
00:44:19Every time I used the shard,
00:44:21it stole a year of my life.
00:44:23Burned away.
00:44:25Then one morning,
00:44:26I looked in the glass.
00:44:27White hair.
00:44:28Hands shaking like a crone.
00:44:31Maren!
00:44:31Let me in!
00:44:32My lord, no!
00:44:33Get off!
00:44:35I want my sister!
00:44:36Let me go!
00:44:38Maren!
00:44:39I couldn't let you see a monster.
00:44:42No.
00:44:43Stop it.
00:44:44Don't ever say that.
00:44:46Look at me.
00:44:46You are Maren.
00:44:48The bravest person I know.
00:44:50But I abandoned you.
00:44:52You gave me your entire life,
00:44:54and I was blind.
00:44:56I didn't see my own sister.
00:44:58I'm sorry.
00:44:59Oh, my brave little brother.
00:45:01It's all right now.
00:45:03No.
00:45:11Cedric,
00:45:11tomorrow is your name day.
00:45:13I haven't made your broth yet.
00:45:16Maren, please.
00:45:17Just rest.
00:45:18You made it for me every year.
00:45:20My whole life.
00:45:22Tomorrow,
00:45:22I'll make it for you.
00:45:29This is my fault.
00:45:30I looked right at her
00:45:31and saw nothing.
00:45:33She hid her hands,
00:45:34traded her life away,
00:45:35and I just stood there.
00:45:37He used the Heartmen Shard
00:45:38to drain her year by year
00:45:40while I watched
00:45:40and called it nothing.
00:45:42She made a choice.
00:45:43The Shard needed a vessel.
00:45:45She offered herself.
00:45:47She healed them.
00:45:48She gave them time.
00:45:50She gave you time.
00:45:52That was all she ever wanted.
00:45:54I looked right past her for years.
00:45:57Thank you
00:45:58for stripping away
00:45:59every excuse I had.
00:46:01I have her back.
00:46:02Whatever it cost you,
00:46:04I swear on my blade
00:46:05I will repay that debt.
00:46:06She hasn't eaten in days.
00:46:08I made this for her.
00:46:09I don't know if she'll want it,
00:46:10but I need to give her something.
00:46:11I'm going to take it to her now.
00:46:13Wait.
00:46:14Something wrong?
00:46:17It's nothing.
00:46:18Go to her.
00:46:19I won't be long.
00:46:22I won't be long.
00:46:23I won't be long.
00:46:26I won't be long.
00:46:28I won't be long.
00:46:30Maren!
00:46:31Maren, wake up!
00:46:33No, no, please!
00:46:34Maren!
00:46:36The scale always balances.
00:46:41Get away from me!
00:46:43Don't touch me!
00:46:45I want my sister!
00:46:47Get away!
00:46:50Where is she?
00:46:54I want my sister!
00:46:57Cedric.
00:46:59I'm here. Look at me.
00:47:01Don't touch me, you old witch!
00:47:07She's dead, isn't she?
00:47:09She left me. Everyone always leaves.
00:47:13But I'm staying.
00:47:15To a legion.
00:47:17I'm not going anywhere.
00:47:20I'm here. Right here.
00:47:23I've got you.
00:47:28Lord Ashworth, she saved my family.
00:47:31She saved so many.
00:47:33We had to come.
00:47:35Everyone knew how much she meant to you, my lord.
00:47:37Her loss leaves a wound in all of us.
00:47:40She gave everything.
00:47:42Healed strangers.
00:47:43She's never once asked for anything in return.
00:47:46Even when it broke her.
00:47:49Even when it cost her.
00:47:51Her life.
00:47:53I watched her disappear.
00:47:56Day by day.
00:47:58If the gods would take me instead,
00:47:59I'd go willingly.
00:48:01And yet you stood there.
00:48:03Every scar on her body.
00:48:05Every year taken from her.
00:48:07His hands did that.
00:48:09All of it.
00:48:11Every shriveled vein on Maren's hands.
00:48:14Every year carved from her face.
00:48:16He arranged all of it.
00:48:18Her life meant nothing to him.
00:48:20He only cared about the gold.
00:48:22The price her dying breath could buy.
00:48:25Oracle, please.
00:48:27Everyone here knows the Ashworth name.
00:48:29We heal the sick.
00:48:31We never ask for coin.
00:48:33We serve the people.
00:48:34You cannot just walk in here and spread lies about my family.
00:48:40If you took no coin,
00:48:41then tell me what you've been hiding in the dark.
00:48:45Every transaction.
00:48:46Every name.
00:48:48Every debt you buried.
00:49:04These are property deeds.
00:49:06Hundreds of them.
00:49:07The Ash House fled the High Lords dry.
00:49:09In secret.
00:49:09They traded healing for mansions.
00:49:12For land.
00:49:13We thought you were a saint, Uldric.
00:49:15You're nothing but a leech.
00:49:17A parasite.
00:49:18You stole my sister's life.
00:49:20You drained Maren dry to build your filthy empire
00:49:23and left her to rot in the dirt.
00:49:25She gave everything!
00:49:27And you ground her bones into your crown!
00:49:30That is not the whole of his sin.
00:49:31When Maren's face withered from what he forced on her,
00:49:35he turned away from her.
00:49:37He took a lover in secret.
00:49:39A secret mistress.
00:49:41A hidden life.
00:49:43There is no one!
00:49:44You are lying!
00:49:45The child you had with her has been living under this very roof.
00:49:49You call her your ward.
00:49:51You let her do as she pleases.
00:49:53Do you deny that Selene is your blood?
00:49:57You gave Selene full run of this house.
00:50:00Is she your bastard?
00:50:02Is that why you let her destroy my sister?
00:50:05Oracle.
00:50:07I have always bowed to your vision.
00:50:09You cannot lay this at my feet.
00:50:11I am innocent if there was money missing from the patients.
00:50:15Maron did it herself.
00:50:17Plain greed!
00:50:18She used the sick to line her own pockets!
00:50:28Look out!
00:50:29Get back!
00:50:31That's gold!
00:50:32He hid it in the tablet!
00:50:37The heavens don't care for your lies.
00:50:40But I do.
00:50:41You built a dynasty on stolen breath.
00:50:44You are no heir to what I left here.
00:50:47You are a parasite.
00:50:50My sister is dead.
00:50:53She died a ruined servant under your roof.
00:50:56And you dare stand over her coffin and call her a thief!
00:51:01I will cut you apart right here.
00:51:03Cedric!
00:51:03Be reasonable.
00:51:04Look at what she had become.
00:51:06Who could look at that face and not be sickened?
00:51:09You are no blood of mine.
00:51:11You are nothing to me.
00:51:13Is this my fault?
00:51:14I would have taken the burden on myself.
00:51:16I swear it!
00:51:17But the healer's grace, it binds only to the women.
00:51:20It rejected me.
00:51:21It was never my choice.
00:51:23We kept her fed.
00:51:24Kept a roof over her head.
00:51:25She owed this family her service.
00:51:28It was her duty to plead for us!
00:51:30A lie.
00:51:32I forged the healer's grace.
00:51:33I wrote its laws.
00:51:35It does not choose by blood or gender.
00:51:38It chooses by the will to sacrifice.
00:51:40It rejected you because it looked inside your chest
00:51:43and found nothing at all.
00:51:45You let a child wither in your place and called it fate.
00:51:49You said you wished to carry the burden.
00:51:52You wanted the Ember's power for yourself.
00:51:54You wanted it all.
00:51:58Very well.
00:52:02Let us see how much of it you can bear.
00:52:09Very well.
00:52:10Number two!
00:52:36No! Get off me!
00:52:38I am the lord of this
00:52:42No
00:52:56Every year he stole from Maren
00:52:58They just ripped it back
00:53:19Maren, can you hear me? Look at me
00:53:25You, you came back
00:53:30You're breathing
00:53:31I watched you stop
00:53:32I thought you were gone
00:53:34You're shaking
00:53:35Your birthday is soon
00:53:38I still owe you bread and broth
00:53:40I'll make it myself
00:53:42Just don't close your eyes again
00:53:45Promise me that
00:53:46Her face still carries what the years cost her
00:53:49But the thirty years Aldric took from her
00:53:52Have been stripped from his bones
00:53:53They're hers now
00:53:55Her hand is healed
00:53:56The debt is paid
00:53:58She will never serve in the dark again
00:54:00She lives
00:54:01The transaction is complete
00:54:07Oracle
00:54:08You didn't owe us this
00:54:10I will carry this mercy until my last breath
00:54:18You gave my sister back her life
00:54:20My life is no longer my own
00:54:23It belongs to you
00:54:24Every breath I draw belongs to your cause
00:54:26I am your shield
00:54:28Your blade
00:54:29Point me at your enemies
00:54:30Wherever you walk
00:54:32I walk with you
00:54:33Until my blood runs cold
00:54:41Remember your oath
00:54:56The Hartman Shard
00:54:58It's time it returned to you
00:54:59You took another piece of your power straight into yourself
00:55:03Will you absorb this one too?
00:55:05You took another piece of your heartbeat
00:55:06어느 do
00:55:07Your chest
00:55:08Oh Dive
00:55:23Help
00:55:24Will you
00:55:24I wake up
00:55:24I wake up
00:55:25I wake up
00:55:25I wake up
00:55:33I wake up
00:55:36Please! Help us! Have mercy!
00:55:43Talk to me. Did the exorcism drain you? Are you hurt?
00:55:48I am not hurt. When I pulled the Hartman's shard from your sister, I absorbed 30 years of her memories.
00:55:54Every single day she spent trapped in that house.
00:55:57There's an echo now. A pressure in my chest.
00:56:00You have a rule. You reclaim a piece of your power, you owe the bloodline one truth.
00:56:05One ember. One question.
00:56:09Maren gave her whole youth to keep me alive.
00:56:12She never got to ask her question.
00:56:15Maren.
00:56:16So I'll ask it for her. Look into your prophecy, Morgana.
00:56:20Did my sister's sacrifice mean anything? Tell me.
00:56:24Your sister asked what waits for you in the north.
00:56:27I didn't lie to her, so I'll tell you exactly what I saw.
00:56:31There is a line drawn across your fate. A terminal point.
00:56:35If you follow me to Ironwall, if you walk into Ravencrest at my side, you will stand before someone and
00:56:41bleed until there is nothing left.
00:56:43And you will die. That is the end of it.
00:56:47In front of who? Who do I bleed for?
00:56:50Me.
00:56:51Knowing this.
00:56:53Knowing that every step north is a step towards your own grave.
00:56:58And you still want to come with me.
00:57:00Forget it. It doesn't matter.
00:57:04You are ordered to stay behind.
00:57:07I walk into Ironwall alone. I don't need a shield.
00:57:10I swore an oath to you.
00:57:13I stand between you and whatever comes.
00:57:16I'm going.
00:57:21I told you how this ends.
00:57:24Are you not afraid?
00:57:26I lead the Obsidian Guard.
00:57:29I have walked into the dark more times than I can count.
00:57:33Every time, they said I wouldn't walk out.
00:57:36Every time, they said the odds were broken.
00:57:39And I am still standing here.
00:57:41Let them come.
00:57:42I will survive it.
00:57:43And I will walk you out of Ironwall myself.
00:57:55Hold the gate.
00:57:57I am Cedric Ashworth, commander of the Obsidian Guards.
00:58:00Hold the gates.
00:58:01Gods.
00:58:02They're here.
00:58:03Fall back.
00:58:04Bar the gates.
00:58:09Go on, mate.
00:58:30Go on, mate.
00:58:52This malice.
00:58:53I know it.
00:58:55She broke them.
00:58:56Who goes there?
00:58:57Morgana.
00:58:59Lady Morgana!
00:59:01Forgive me.
00:59:02My grandfather speaks of you often.
00:59:05And you are?
00:59:07Finn Ravenkest, my lady.
00:59:08Grandson to Patriarch Thorne.
00:59:11Morgana.
00:59:12Smile for me.
00:59:14You look best when you smile.
00:59:16Foolish.
00:59:25You must think I'm completely useless with a blade.
00:59:28I've been sickly since childhood.
00:59:30My sister-in-law handles the killing.
00:59:32She lets me read instead.
00:59:34I apologize for the gate.
00:59:36It's just...
00:59:36Lately.
00:59:37The moment the sun sets, the dead walk.
00:59:40Vesta fears the undead soldiers breaching the walls, slaughtering our people.
00:59:44Please forgive the locked gates, my lady.
00:59:46These undead outside your walls.
00:59:48What is their origin?
00:59:50We don't know.
00:59:50Not since my grandfather fell.
00:59:52They don't discern friend from foe.
00:59:54They just butcher.
00:59:55For six months we've been trapped here.
00:59:58Powerless.
00:59:58Thorne was injured?
01:00:00Yes.
01:00:02Ambushed by the dead weeks ago.
01:00:03He hasn't woken since.
01:00:06Take me to him.
01:00:08Of course.
01:00:09Finn!
01:00:16You dare test me, boy?
01:00:18Who authorized you to breach the protocol?
01:00:21Who gave you leave to welcome stray vagras into my fortress?
01:00:25Do Frost Stokes' laws mean nothing to you?
01:00:28Vesper, wait.
01:00:29This is Lady Morgana.
01:00:30Grandfather foresaw this.
01:00:32He said a woman named Morgana would come for the Shard.
01:00:35We must show her absolute respect.
01:00:37The Patriarch is dying.
01:00:38He needs silence, not scavengers chasing fairy tales.
01:00:41Commander Vesper.
01:00:43Even the Emperor bows to Lady Morgana.
01:00:46I suggest you mind your tone.
01:00:48Before I cut out your tongue.
01:00:51Damn your southern king!
01:00:53Here, we follow north laws.
01:00:55Your laws.
01:00:57Tell me.
01:00:59What does the north demand?
01:01:01You want to see him?
01:01:02Bleed for it.
01:01:04Best me in combat.
01:01:05Win, and you get your audience.
01:01:07And your precious shard.
01:01:09Lose, and you crawl back south.
01:01:12Frostbite does not serve the weak.
01:01:15I'll gladly test your eye on, Commander.
01:01:17Good!
01:01:18A real man!
01:01:19Bring me my steel!
01:01:23Morgana.
01:01:24My sister-in-law is a monster on the battlefield.
01:01:27She holds the true bloodline.
01:01:29No one beats her.
01:01:31Is this it, then?
01:01:33The day you foreseen I would die.
01:01:37No!
01:01:54He's hurt!
01:01:55He will not die.
01:01:59I'm playing with time!
01:02:03I'm playing with time!
01:02:05I'm playing with time!
01:02:18Well fought.
01:02:20Your form is decent.
01:02:22But you fight like you fear death.
01:02:24Always leaving room to retreat.
01:02:26Remember,
01:02:27a real enemy won't give you quarter.
01:02:30The only way to outlive them
01:02:31is to care less about dying.
01:02:34Mother!
01:02:36Mother!
01:02:40There's my little bird.
01:02:42You promised me
01:02:43we'd practice archery today.
01:02:45I know.
01:02:46Go grab your bow.
01:02:47I'm coming.
01:02:48Okay!
01:02:52When you have something
01:02:53you can't leave behind,
01:02:54then teach me to fight.
01:02:57Tomorrow,
01:02:58I will grant you an audience
01:02:59for the Patriarch.
01:03:02You see?
01:03:03I am still breathing.
01:03:05If you had truly defied my vision.
01:03:09Now that
01:03:09would be interesting.
01:03:14My lady,
01:03:15the north is freezing.
01:03:16I brought you
01:03:17these heavy furs.
01:03:18Your concern is noted, boy.
01:03:20But she has no need
01:03:22for such common scraps.
01:03:23These are royal pelts from...
01:03:28Gods.
01:03:30What in the world is this?
01:03:32It's so soft.
01:03:34It doesn't even feel like wool.
01:03:35It feels like water.
01:03:37These deep red shapes here.
01:03:39What kind of flower is this?
01:03:41A rose.
01:03:42The sovereign of flowers.
01:03:45A rose.
01:03:46It's beautiful.
01:03:47I can't even imagine it.
01:03:49So this is what the south grows.
01:03:51Here in Frostspike,
01:03:53the winter never ends.
01:03:54The ground is iron.
01:03:55Nothing this fragile
01:03:56could ever survive the frost.
01:03:59If it pleases you, boy,
01:04:01help us reclaim the shard
01:04:02from your keep.
01:04:03And this mantle
01:04:05is yours to keep.
01:04:06Truly?
01:04:07You swear on your honor?
01:04:09On my blood.
01:04:12Done.
01:04:12I'll get ready.
01:04:17You barter with the boy
01:04:18because you are certain
01:04:19that Vesta will not
01:04:21surrender the shard.
01:04:25Two years ago
01:04:26at the Bloodwater siege,
01:04:28Vesta's husband
01:04:28begged the Emperor
01:04:30for reinforcements.
01:04:31But the royal court
01:04:32was busy preparing
01:04:33the Emperor's jubilee.
01:04:34The army never marched.
01:04:35Her husband died in the mud,
01:04:36left her and the child alone.
01:04:40Vesta has every reason
01:04:41to hate the crown.
01:04:42She struck a deal
01:04:43with the enemy.
01:04:45You are wrong.
01:04:48You said we were
01:04:49seeing the Patriarch.
01:04:50Why bring us to a crypt?
01:04:51Whatever you see in there,
01:04:53hold your nerve.
01:04:55My grandfather rest inside.
01:04:57Please, this way.
01:05:13What?
01:05:18Is this?
01:05:20It is Thorn.
01:05:21Yes.
01:05:22Since the ambush
01:05:23six months ago,
01:05:24this crust began to form.
01:05:26It started around his wounds,
01:05:28then it spread,
01:05:30swallowing him whole.
01:05:31How many healers
01:05:32have you called?
01:05:33All of them.
01:05:34None could break it.
01:05:51This isn't a sickness,
01:05:53is it?
01:05:54It is his own madness.
01:05:56His madness?
01:05:57Thorn's natural life
01:05:59ended in the snow
01:06:00six months ago.
01:06:04But his fury
01:06:05anchored him here.
01:06:08he refuses to pass on.
01:06:10And the shard
01:06:11buried within him
01:06:12gave his wrath
01:06:13a physical form,
01:06:14spawning the dead
01:06:15that batter your gates,
01:06:17while this stone shell
01:06:19devours his remaining soul.
01:06:21The undead?
01:06:23They came from
01:06:24my grandfather's own mind?
01:06:27What kind of nightmare
01:06:29could be powerful enough
01:06:30to breed an entire
01:06:32army of corpses?
01:06:37What is happening?
01:06:42The dead are marching
01:06:43in daylight.
01:06:46I'll hold the line!
01:06:48Gather the men!
01:06:49My lady,
01:06:50I'm begging you,
01:06:51save Frostbike!
01:06:52Take the shard back!
01:06:54It's right there
01:06:54in his chest!
01:06:55Please,
01:06:56just take it!
01:06:57I beg you!
01:06:59Yes,
01:07:00but the shard
01:07:01must be freely given.
01:07:03Even I cannot
01:07:04carve it out by force.
01:07:06I will pull Thorn
01:07:07back from the dark.
01:07:08Do not let them
01:07:09interrupt me.
01:07:10This pennant
01:07:11will hold the dead,
01:07:12plant it beyond the gates,
01:07:13it will buy me time.
01:07:16If the ward fails,
01:07:17if the dead
01:07:18breach the line,
01:07:20or if you are overrun,
01:07:22do not die for me.
01:07:24Leave.
01:07:24My orders stand.
01:07:27You are my charge.
01:07:29I do not break the line.
01:07:46I remember a boy.
01:07:48One who chased my shadow,
01:07:50always begging for stories.
01:07:53Now,
01:07:54reduced to stone.
01:07:59Veil lift.
01:08:01Flesh bind.
01:08:03Awaken.
01:08:06Thorn.
01:08:09Ashworth!
01:08:10Her magic broke!
01:08:11She's bleeding!
01:08:24Shit.
01:08:36Finn,
01:08:37what are you doing?
01:08:38I'm done pretending,
01:08:40Commander.
01:08:41Did you honestly think
01:08:42Vesper was the one
01:08:43who crippled my grandfather?
01:08:44It was me
01:08:45who left the gate wide open.
01:08:47So,
01:08:48you're the rat.
01:08:49They butchered your parents,
01:08:51slaughtered your own brothers,
01:08:52they bled Frostbear dry,
01:08:54and you sold us out
01:08:55to the monsters?
01:08:56Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
01:08:58Sold us out?
01:08:59Monsters?
01:09:00Better than being
01:09:00the crown's lapdog.
01:09:02Why should we bleed for them?
01:09:03Our ancestors all
01:09:05followed Morgana.
01:09:06We were equals once,
01:09:07but because they got
01:09:08different shards,
01:09:08some get to rule the capital,
01:09:10some get the gold,
01:09:11and what did the rain creeps get?
01:09:12Three generations
01:09:13rotting in this frozen wasteland,
01:09:15bleeding out in the ice.
01:09:16Just another name
01:09:17on a tombstone,
01:09:19waiting to be wiped out.
01:09:21I won't let it end like this.
01:09:23I'm going to tear Frostfire down,
01:09:26break the chains
01:09:26they put on us.
01:09:29I saw Morgana use this.
01:09:31It commands the dead.
01:09:34I hold the power now.
01:09:41Isn't that right?
01:09:42I'm out.
01:09:49Run!
01:09:53Run!
01:09:59Run!
01:10:04Run!
01:10:05Run!
01:10:10Right!
01:10:11Run!
01:10:13Let's go.
01:10:42Let's go.
01:10:47Three.
01:11:00Sis, you came.
01:11:04Sister, I...
01:11:05What is happening to me?
01:11:07Where are we?
01:11:08Your mortal life is ended, but your obsession anchored you here.
01:11:14Your soul was twisted by inner demons and the Shard.
01:11:18You are nothing but a lingering phantom now.
01:11:43Yes.
01:11:46I remember the vow.
01:11:48I gave you my word.
01:11:51To hold this fortress.
01:11:53To bleed for the innocent.
01:11:56But the dead are here.
01:11:59The wolves are at the gates.
01:12:02I...
01:12:02I dare not leave.
01:12:04Enough, Thorn.
01:12:05You have bled enough.
01:12:08Your bloodline.
01:12:11Your men.
01:12:12Your dead man.
01:12:14No.
01:12:17Oh, yes.
01:12:20Oh.
01:12:28Oh, yes.
01:12:34Oh, yes.
01:12:35Oh.
01:12:36Oh.
01:12:37Oh, yes.
01:12:38Oh.
01:12:47Let the obsession die
01:12:51You must go
01:12:53Whatever my sister commands
01:12:57Thorn will always obey
01:13:01But before I return the Shard
01:13:06Morgana, may I ask you one question?
01:13:12What did you want to ask?
01:13:16All these years
01:13:19Alone in the dark
01:13:24Were you alright, Morgana?
01:13:39You won't touch her
01:13:42I was fine
01:13:49That is good
01:14:04You won't touch her
01:14:28The witch.
01:14:42So, this is the death you saw from me?
01:14:46You are never wrong.
01:14:49Morgana, it seems I won't be here to help you take back what is yours.
01:15:13I make no grand claims, but I swear I will help you take it all back.
01:15:36Monster.
01:15:38Monster, you godless monster!
01:15:42Monster.
01:15:42Monster.
01:15:54This world is sick.
01:16:01Finn, why would you do this?
01:16:05My brother, he died because the crown, because the crown never sent reinforcements.
01:16:13He bled out in the snow.
01:16:16And ever since then, I haven't seen you smile.
01:16:20Not truly.
01:16:21I was so close.
01:16:24Just a little more than I could have taken you away from this prison.
01:16:32You foolish boy.
01:16:35Frostfire is now prison.
01:16:38Look at the people behind these walls.
01:16:40The thousands we pulled from the slaughter.
01:16:42The soldiers I trained with my own hands.
01:16:45Every block of black stone.
01:16:47Every frozen inch of the north.
01:16:49Holds my blood.
01:16:51Nothing has ever trapped me.
01:16:53This is the line I chose to hold.
01:16:56Frostfire is my home, Finn.
01:16:57And I will defend it until I break.
01:17:03I thought...
01:17:05I thought you hated the crown.
01:17:08I only wanted to break your chains.
01:17:16I do hate the crown.
01:17:18But I love the north.
01:17:19I love our people.
01:17:21I am holding this line for your brother.
01:17:23So the children here.
01:17:25So my own daughter can sleep without fear of the slaughter.
01:17:29So it was just me.
01:17:31I was the only one who couldn't let go.
01:17:36Take me away.
01:17:38I will.
01:17:39I'll take you south.
01:17:41I want to sleep beneath the roses.
01:17:56Why the Frostfire?
01:17:57Why Thorn Ravencrest?
01:17:59My youngest student.
01:18:01Still breathes.
01:18:02I need to see him.
01:18:05And the Ravencrest piece of the crown.
01:18:07What is it, exactly?
01:18:08A drop of my own blood, the Undying Spark.
01:18:12Your blood?
01:18:13No wonder your skin is like ice.
01:18:15Morgana, how did you lose your eyes?
01:18:18Sixty winters ago, the realm was drowning in its own blood.
01:18:23To buy them a dawn, I offered my own flesh and soul.
01:18:28I stripped everything away.
01:18:31Bound it to the obsidian.
01:18:33Twelve fragments.
01:18:34Given to twelve disciples.
01:18:36To save this world.
01:18:39Sixty years have passed.
01:18:40My students took that power.
01:18:43And forged twelve great bloodlines.
01:18:46And now, there is peace.
01:18:49Now I take back what is mine.
01:18:52Morgana, what else are you missing?
01:18:55You never change your boots.
01:18:56I've never seen you eat.
01:18:58Or sleep, for that matter.
01:19:00Your hair turned white.
01:19:02Silence.
01:19:13Morgana, I will help you get it all back.
01:19:17Every last piece, you have my word.
01:19:22No matter what it takes.
01:19:25No matter the cost.
01:19:33Sixty years ago, to buy this realm a breath of life.
01:19:38I gave my own flesh and soul to the forge.
01:19:41No attachments.
01:19:43No desires.
01:19:45I told you to run.
01:19:47But of course, fate demands its due.
01:20:00Would you still draw your blade for me?
01:20:03Knowing it will only lead to your grave.
01:20:05I am going.
01:20:07I've commanded the vanguard for years.
01:20:09I've faced death more times than I can count.
01:20:13But I have never lost.
01:20:14And I will not lose this time, either.
01:20:20And I will not lose this time, either.
01:20:44I will never lose this time.
01:20:47I will.
01:20:50My lady, forgive me.
01:20:54Assassins!
01:21:10this southern blood magic they say one puppet butchers ten men and i tore them apart before
01:21:16they could even blink i feel like i could rip through solid iron you were bleeding to death
01:21:22no medicine could save you so i bound a fraction of my shard to your fading heart
01:21:27tethered your life to mine with my power in your veins no mortal man can stand against you
01:21:33you could have run you chose to stay you accepted my gift from now on you are bound to my
01:21:42will are we
01:21:44clear so i am no better than these husks i'm just your puppet
01:21:50do not compare yourself to such pathetic trash they are nothing like you
01:22:00you you are my masterpiece
01:22:14that shard of the crown was torn from my own veins a single drop of my heart's blood
01:22:25i never thought you would waste such a priceless piece of yourself on me i never thought
01:22:30i'd even be alive my lady you always said your prophecies are absolute never wrong to give me
01:22:37the shard to force me to live isn't this defying the gods themselves taking the heart back was a mistake
01:22:50morgana
01:22:53farewell be wary without the primordial crown's shard the horde will show no mercy
01:23:01i know the risks but i command this gate shard or no shard the raven crests will hold this line
01:23:09to the last breath the horde is at our walls i ride with the vanguard godspeed
01:23:30why didn't you tell her about the warding spikes you planted the wards are nothing compared to the
01:23:36primordial blood still boiling in their veins they will survive
01:23:44what's happening are you all right i feel a disturbance a forbading sensation
01:23:49i have looked ahead i wish i had not the road before us is dark
01:24:10we must push forward wherever you go i will follow
01:24:15where to next south to the scarlet lands
01:24:20i want to meet the fool who thought they could kill me
01:24:24you
01:24:25you
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